The editor wishes to thank the following authors, their agents or executors, for permission to include copyright material in this collection:
Popular Publications Inc. for ‘The Benevolent Ghost and Captain Lowrie’ by Richard Sale © 1940.
Macmillan London for ‘A Matter of Fact* by Rudyard Kipling © 1935.
William Heinemann for ‘Davy Jones’s Gift’ by John Masefield © 1907.
A. P. Watt Ltd for ‘In The Abyss’ by H. G. Wells © 1946.
A. D. Peters Literary Agency for ‘Undersea Guardians’ by Ray Bradbury © 1944; and ‘The Turning of the Tide’ by C. S. Forester © 1952.
Every effort has been made to trace the copyright holders of the stories in this book. The editor offers his apologies in the event of any acknowledgment being accidentally omitted.